Tuesday – September 11^th

18.30 – 19.30 WELCOME COCKTAIL AND REGISTRATION

Wednesday – September 12^th

8.00 – 8.45 REGISTRATION

8.45 – 9.30 OPENING and FOREWORD

8:45 Giovanni Carlotti Welcome and info from the Organizing Committee

9:00 Kareem Elsayad BioBrillouin - where do we go?

9.45 – 13.00 JOINT SESSION: Instrumentation Development (Session Chairs: Daniele Fioretto & Silvia Caponi)

9:30 Invited Sergej Demokritov BLS studies with multiple combinable resolution on magnetic micro- and nano-structures

10.00 Invited Peter Török How to design and build a Brillouin microscope

10:30 Robert Prevedel Developing Brillouin microscopy for studying the role of biomechanics in developmental biology

10:45 Thomas Meyer Advanced Brillouin light scattering microscopy in a fully automatized measurement environment

11:00 Filippo Scarponi High-performance versatile setup for simultaneous Brillouin-Raman microspectroscopy

11:15 Coffee Break

11.45 Antonio Fiore Absolute three-dimensional measurement of refractive index via photon-phonon phase matching

12.00 Jean-Charles Beugnot All fiber Brillouin spectrometer for optomechanical metrology

12:15 Giuseppe Antonacci High-contrast single-stage VIPA spectrometer by background deflection

12:45 BUFFET LUNCH

14:00 – 15:20 P1 POSTER SESSION & Flash Presentations (Session Chair: Francesca Palombo)

15:30 Transfer to the Aula Magna at the Department of Agronomy

Special Historical Session and PhD Honoris Causa

16:15 Invited Fabrizio Nizzoli Birth and development of surface Brillouin light scattering from phonons

16:45 Invited Burkard Hillebrands Ubi BLS, ibi scientia: 40+ years of magnonic Brillouin light scattering

17:30 PhD Honoris Causa to John Sandercock – The invention of the Tandem Fabry-Perot interferometer and its impact on science (Lectio Magistralis & EBSA talk)

19:00 SOCIAL DINNER (buffet)

Thursday – September 13^th

PARALLEL SESSION 1

8:30 – 12:05 Magnon spintronics and spin waves (Session Chairs: Gianluca Gubbiotti and Silvia Tacchi)

8:30 Invited Helmuth Schulteiss Magnon transport in spin textures

9:10 Invited Dmytro Bozhko Brillouin light scattering detection of unconventional spin currents in magnetic films

9:50 Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li Magnon and phonon thermometry with inelastic light scattering

10:05 Ryszard Gieniusz Spin wave optical effects studied by Brillouin light scattering technique

10:20 Coffee Break

10:50 Invited Ahmad Awad Mutual synchronization of large arrays of Spin Hall nano-oscillators

11:20 Shreyas Muralidhar Study of optically induced spinwaves using µ-focused Brillouin light scattering technique

11:35 Federico Montoncello Collective spin waves in arrays of permalloy nanowires with single- and double-side periodical width-modulation

11:50 Shang-Fan Lee Detection of exchange spin waves from frequency modulated oscillating vortex core in NiFe disk array

PARALLEL SESSION 2

8:30 – 12:15 – BioBrillouin

WG1: Medical & Clinical Applications (Session Chair: Nick Stone)

8:30 Invited Francesca Palombo Brillouin microscopy: route to translation

9:00 Thomas Dehoux Investigation of cancer mechanobiology with Brillouin microscopy

9:15 Arif Demir Development of LIBS and Raman spectrometer for kidney stone analysis

9:30 Mami Matsukawa Evaluation of bone by Brillouin scattering

9:45 Tijana Lainović Mapping mechanical properties of tooth tissues and material-dentin interfaces by Brillouin spectroscopy

10:00 Rikke Morrish Assessing chromatin changes in single cells

10:15 Coffee Break

WG2: Medical & Clinical Applications (Session Chair: Thomas Dehoux)

10:45 Invited Kristie Koski Elastic properties of marine biomaterials: From nacre to sea sponges

11:15 Jochen Guck Mechanical mapping of spinal cord development and repair in living zebrafish larvae using Brillouin microscopy

11:30 Christina Conrad Evaluating ovarian cancer 3D nodule mechanical properties using Brillouin confocal microscopy

11:45 Invited Alba Diz-Munoz Studying the role of tissue mechanics with Brillouin microscopy

12:30 BUFFET LUNCH

13:00 – 14:00 P2 – POSTER SESSION (Session Chair: Marco Madami & Raffaele Silvani)

14:00 – 17:45 JOINT SESSION

WG3: Correlative & Comparative Methods (Session Chair: Kristie Koski)

14:00 Invited David Sampson How does optical coherence elastography compare with Brillouin microscopy

14:30 Invited Kristian Franze Comparing Brillouin microscopy and AFM

15.00 Deniz Kaya Video microscopy method of colloidal systems as comparative study for Brillouin scattering

15:15 Kyoohyun Kim Correlative Brillouin microscopy and optical diffraction tomography for measuring mechanics and morphology of yeast in stress

15:30 Pei-Jung Wu Brillouin microscopy measures water content in hydrated materials

15:45 Coffee Break

WG4 and WG5: Outreach & Dissemination (Session Chair: Celia Sousa)

16:15 Invited (EBSA talk) Nick Stone Advances in biomedical Raman spectroscopy for clinical diagnostics

16:45 Invited Mauro Dalla Serra ARBRE and the COST Action MOBIEU

17:15 Invited Paul Pudney Feel and function: understanding how products interact with people using spectroscopy

18.30 - 20 GUIDED TOUR OF THE HISTORICAL CITY CENTER

Friday - September 14^th

Work Group Meetings of the COST Action BIOBRILLOUIN will be scheduled in parallel with the following session

9:00 – 12:50 Parallel SESSION Elastic and Viscoelastic Properties (Session Chair: Lucia Comez & Silvia Corezzi)

9:00 John Kieffer Elastic property reconstitution upon stress relaxation in polymers

9:20 Boguslaw Mroz Low energy Kohn anomaly in topological insulator

9:40 Yu Cang Probing phonon propagation in architected soft matter by Brillouin light spectroscopy

10:00 Bart Graczykowski Elastic properties of few nanometers thick polycrystalline MoS₂ membranes: A nondestructive study

10:20 Coffee Break

11:00 Jérémie Margueritat Study of the opto-mechanical coupling in single gold nanoparticle dimer using Brillouin spectroscopy

11:20 Barbara Rossi Molecular and structural properties of pH-sensitive hydrogels: a combined Brillouin, UV Raman and Small Angles Neutron Scattering investigation

11:40 Marco Beghi Deconvolution of light collection geometry effects in the analysis of Brillouin spectra

12:10 Vincent Laude Modeling the spontaneous Brillouin scattering spectrum of microstructured optical fibers

12:30 Daniel Williams Complete first order elastic properties of bamboo fiber variants using Brillouin spectroscopy

12:50 CLOSING REMARKS & BUFFET LUNCH

POSTERS

SESSION P1 – WEDNESDAY SEPT. 12

P1-1 O. A. Gederaas, Photodynamic therapy using corroles and ruthenium porphyrins

P1-2 M-V. GomezGaviro, Biobrillouin scattering studies of optically cleared tissues

P1-3 S. Mattana, Viscoelasticity and biochemical composition of amyloid plaques in transgenic mouse brain studied by correlative Brillouin and Raman micro-spectroscopy

P1-4 A. Patkowski, Pressure dependent Brillouin scattering studies of acebutolol chydrochloride

P1-5 M. Alunni Cardinali, A combined micro-Brillouin and Raman spectroscopy approach for chemo-mechanical mapping of Candida biofilms

P1-6 T. Schlamp, Brillouin imaging the cell wall elasticity in plants

P1-7 Bevilacqua, Low- and high-frequency elasticity in heterogeneous biological tissues

P1-8 J. Czarske, The road to impulsive stimulated Brillouin micro-elastography

P1-9 J. Gapinski, To be young again: rejuvenation of extremely old glasses

P1-10 M. Bailey, Micromechanical properties of tissue phantoms probed by Brillouin microscopy

P1-11 C. Larosa, Polycarbonate-cerium oxide nanoparticles composites: characterisation and optical properties

P1-12 S. Caponi, Non-contact mechanical and chemical analysis of single living cells investigated by micro-spectroscopic techniques

P1-13 P. Djemia, Viscoelastic properties of polyurethane for scaffold applications

P1-14 A. Morresi, Brillouin micro-spectroscopy of bone and cartilage tissue

P1-15 L. Zhang, Complementing Brillouin microspectroscopy with time- and polarization-resolved fluorescence to extract the ‘local’ refractive index and viscous properties

SESSION P2 – THURSDAY SEPT. 13

P2-1 S. Corezzi, A simple analysis of Brillouin spectra from opaque liquids and its application to aqueous suspensions of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide microgel particles

P2-2 R. Silvani, Spin waves and magnonic effects in FeN films with self organized stripe domains

P2-3 M. Madami, Brillouin light scattering investigation of the spin wave beam focusing effect under excitation by curved transducer

P2-4 T. Hula Realization of high resolution TOF-measurements for inelastically scattered photons

P2-5 K. Baumgaertl, Direct observation of a tunable spin wave phase shift at a magnetic defect in a one-dimensional magnonic crystal

P2-6 S. Mielcarek, Magnons and phonons BLS investigations in bilayer substituted YIG samples of complex magnetic configuration

P2-7 A. Thiaville, On the measurement of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction by Brillouin light scattering

P2-8 A. Boubca, Half-metallic completely compensated ferrimagnets in Cr doped BaP

P2-9 Z. N. Utegulov, Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy as a probe of non-Newtonian behavior of simple liquids

P2-10 C. L. Ordoñez-Romero, Dark spin-wave envelope solitons travelling in yttrium iron garnet films

P2-11 A.G. Grachev, Brillouin light scattering study of strain induced landscapes

P2-12 J.P. Adam, Nonreciprocal flexural dynamics of Dzyaloshinskii domain walls